Friday, January 20, 2012

The National City Bank Building

What sets Rosetta's Cleveland office apart is that last year, it eschewed it's suburban digs and now calls the downtown National City Bank Building home. The structure hails back to the 1890's, when architects Shepley, Rutan and Coolidge designed the original building, part of which is now occupied by a Holiday Inn Express (ughville on the awning, dudes). A major addition about 30 years later makes the NCB sort of an odd historic complex, stretching around the block bordered by Euclid Ave., E. 6th St. and Short Vincent.

Here are some pix, taken in and around the building. For the record, Rosetta's offices are far above all of this. You can see their posh penthouse lounge peeking from the rear of the complex in the last pic in this series. Hop over to the article to see my buddy Bob Perkoski's pix of Rosetta's sleek offices.

5 comments:

Cleveland had never crossed my mind until I started reading your blog. Now I have a little Cleveland shaped itch I can't seem to scratch. The love you have for your town makes me want to come see it through your lense. Or, the most likely option, troll the internet to look at pictures since I don't care so much for traveling...

I was only able to post ceiling pix of the bank-proper (and how glad am I that PNC still uses the main bank floor as an active bank?). A bank-lady came up to me and put the ibosh-kay on the oto-phays, so there you go--security or some such thing.